"used today. Since 2008, the TEAMS competitions have had a theme. The 2010 theme for the TEAMS competition delved in the problems engineers face while providing access to clean water. It was named for Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous quote, ""Water, water, everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink."" This competition is divided in two parts. The first part, lasting an hour and a half, has 80 multiple choice questions. Each group of ten questions is related to a specific problem relating to the overall theme. The second part consists of eight open-ended tasks that are aimed at encouraging teamwork to"
"every where, | Nor any drop to drink"" has appeared widely in popular culture, but usually given in a more natural modern phrasing as ""Water, water, everywhere | ""But not a drop to drink""""; some such appearances have, in turn, played on the frequency with which these lines are misquoted. The poem is referenced in the script of the 1939 film ""The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes"". The Iron Maiden song ""Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" from their fifth studio album ""Powerslave"" (1984) was inspired by and based on the poem, and quotes the poem in its lyrics. A 1971 episode"
"has been deeply influential in the field of literary criticism. This influence can be seen in such critics as A. O. Lovejoy and I. A. Richards. Coleridge is probably best known for his long poems, ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" and ""Christabel"". Even those who have never read the ""Rime"" have come under its influence: its words have given the English language the metaphor of an albatross around one's neck, the quotation of ""water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink"" (almost always rendered as ""but not a drop to drink""), and the phrase ""a sadder and a wiser"
"High Water Everywhere ""High Water Everywhere"" is a Delta blues song recorded in 1929 by noted blues singer Charley Patton. The song is about the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and how it affected residents of the Mississippi Delta, particularly the mistreatment of African Americans. Patton recorded it during his second session with Paramount, in late 1929; his recordings from this session are frequently considered his best works. The song's subject is the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the largest flood in American history, which affected much of the Mississippi River valley, devastating large parts of Louisiana and the Mississippi"
"had rendered it much more brackish. The historical geographer Carville Earle, among others, holds to this view. The temptation to drink seawater was greatest for sailors who had expended their supply of fresh water, and were unable to capture enough rainwater for drinking. This frustration was described famously by a line from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's epic poem ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" (1798): Although humans cannot survive on seawater alone—and, indeed, will sicken quickly if they try—some people have claimed that up to two cups a day, mixed with fresh water in a 2:3 ratio, produces no ill effect."
"beautiful settings in existence of Tennyson's splendid lyric"". Tears, Idle Tears ""Tears, Idle Tears"" is a lyric poem written in 1847 by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), the Victorian-era English poet. Published as one of the ""songs"" in his ""The Princess"" (1847), it is regarded for the quality of its lyrics. A Tennyson anthology describes the poem as ""one of the most Virgilian of Tennyson's poems and perhaps his most famous lyric"". Readers often overlook the poem's blank verse—the poem does not rhyme. Tennyson was inspired to write ""Tears, Idle Tears"" upon a visit to Tintern Abbey in Monmouthshire, an abbey"
"the revolution?— All, all are sleeping on the hill. They brought them dead sons from the war, And daughters whom life had crushed, And their children fatherless, crying— All, all are sleeping, sleeping, sleeping on the hill. Where is Old Fiddler Jones Who played with life all his ninety years, Braving the sleet with bared breast, Drinking, rioting, thinking neither of wife nor kin, Nor gold, nor love, nor heaven? Lo! he babbles of the fish-frys of long ago, Of the horse-races of long ago at Clary’s Grove, Of what Abe Lincoln said One time at Springfield. Each following poem"
"Tears, Idle Tears ""Tears, Idle Tears"" is a lyric poem written in 1847 by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), the Victorian-era English poet. Published as one of the ""songs"" in his ""The Princess"" (1847), it is regarded for the quality of its lyrics. A Tennyson anthology describes the poem as ""one of the most Virgilian of Tennyson's poems and perhaps his most famous lyric"". Readers often overlook the poem's blank verse—the poem does not rhyme. Tennyson was inspired to write ""Tears, Idle Tears"" upon a visit to Tintern Abbey in Monmouthshire, an abbey that was abandoned in 1536. He said the"
"would scream at a particular spot in a lake or river, in a way reminiscent of the loon, and on that spot, a fatality would later take place. He was also said to cause drownings, but swimmers could protect themselves against such a fate by throwing a bit of steel into the water. In the later Romantic folklore and folklore-inspired stories of the 19th century, the ""nøkk"" sings about his loneliness and his longing for salvation, which he purportedly never shall receive, as he is not ""a child of God"". In a poem by Swedish poet E. J. Stagnelius, a"
"Darkness (poem) ""Darkness"" is a poem written by Lord Byron in July 1816. That year was known as the Year Without a Summer, because Mount Tambora had erupted in the Dutch East Indies the previous year, casting enough sulphur into the atmosphere to reduce global temperatures and cause abnormal weather across much of north-east America and northern Europe. This pall of darkness inspired Byron to write his poem. Literary critics were initially content to classify it as a ""last man"" poem, telling the apocalyptic story of the last man on earth. More recent critics have focused on the poem's historical"
"Annie Hawks Annie Hawks (May 28, 1836 - January 3, 1918) was an American poet and gospel hymnist who wrote a number of hymns with her pastor, Robert Lowry. She contributed to several popular Sunday school hymnbooks, and wrote the lyrics to a number of well-known hymns including: ""I Need Thee Every Hour""; ""Thine, Most Gracious Lord""; ""Why Weepest Thou? Who Seekest Thou?""; ""Full and Free Salvation"" and ""My Soul Is Anchored"". Annie Sherwood was born on May 28, 1836, in Hoosick, New York. Her ancestry on her father's side was English, and on her mother's side, remotely, Holland Dutch."
"Le Bateau ivre ""Le Bateau ivre"" (""The Drunken Boat"") is a 100-line verse-poem written in 1871 by Arthur Rimbaud. The poem describes the drifting and sinking of a boat lost at sea in a fragmented first-person narrative saturated with vivid imagery and symbolism. Rimbaud, then aged 16, wrote the poem in the summer of 1871 at his childhood home in Charleville in Northern France. Rimbaud included the poem in a letter he sent to Paul Verlaine in September 1871 to introduce himself to Verlaine. Shortly afterwards, he joined Verlaine in Paris and became his lover. Rimbaud was inspired to write"
"river and — I guess it’s supposed to be about opium — never are involved in life. Maybe there’s a bit of that in there,"" said Peter Buck. The Lotos-Eaters ""The Lotos-Eaters"" is a poem by Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, published in Tennyson's 1832 poetry collection. It was inspired by his trip to Spain with his close friend Arthur Hallam, where they visited the Pyrenees mountains. The poem describes a group of mariners who, upon eating the lotos, are put into an altered state and isolated from the outside world. The title and concept derives from the lotus-eaters in"
"tout un Léviathan""). It ends floating and washed clean, wishing only to sink and become one with the sea. Archibald MacLeish has commented on this poem: ""Anyone who doubts that poetry can say what prose cannot has only to read the so-called ""Lettres du Voyant"" and ""Bateau Ivre"" together. What is pretentious and adolescent in the ""Lettres"" is true in the poem—""unanswerably"" true."" French poet Paul Valéry stated that ""all known literature is written in the language of ""common sense""—except Rimbaud's"". His poetry influenced the Symbolists, Dadaists, and Surrealists, and later writers adopted not only some of his themes, but"
"elegiac text of Newburgh: Mourn him, ye bogs, in tears discharge your tides, No more shall Pockrich tap your spongy hides; Ye geese, ye ganders, cackle doleful lays, No more his mountain tops your flocks shall graze; Be silent, dumb, ye late harmonious glasses— Free from surprise, serenely sleep, ye lasses. Let drums, unbraced, in hollow murmurs tell How he that waked their thunders silent fell. Let tempests swell the surge, no more his boat, Secure from wreck, shall on the billows float; No more, ye sons of Nappy, shall his beer Or nut-brown ale your dropping spirits cheer, To"
"me, guttering, choking, drowning"". </poem> The title of Owen's poem is part of a line from the Roman poet Horace – """" (""It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country""). The phrase was inscribed over the chapel door at Sandhurst, the British military academy, in 1913. The phrase is again referenced when Duffy writes ""Dulce — No — Decorum — No — Pro patria mori."" The writer Will Heaven said that, whilst the poem denies that death in war is ""sweet and proper"" (""dulce et decorum""), it does not deny that the soldiers died for their country (""pro"
"this and the vipers are “slain for food.” Paley continues, saying “associations of millennial imagery are consistently invoked to be bitterly frustrated."" Darkness (poem) ""Darkness"" is a poem written by Lord Byron in July 1816. That year was known as the Year Without a Summer, because Mount Tambora had erupted in the Dutch East Indies the previous year, casting enough sulphur into the atmosphere to reduce global temperatures and cause abnormal weather across much of north-east America and northern Europe. This pall of darkness inspired Byron to write his poem. Literary critics were initially content to classify it as a"
"with her daughter and son-in-law. She died there on January 3, 1918, and is interred at the Hoosick Rural Cemetery. Annie Hawks Annie Hawks (May 28, 1836 - January 3, 1918) was an American poet and gospel hymnist who wrote a number of hymns with her pastor, Robert Lowry. She contributed to several popular Sunday school hymnbooks, and wrote the lyrics to a number of well-known hymns including: ""I Need Thee Every Hour""; ""Thine, Most Gracious Lord""; ""Why Weepest Thou? Who Seekest Thou?""; ""Full and Free Salvation"" and ""My Soul Is Anchored"". Annie Sherwood was born on May 28, 1836,"
"to howl; And all his good friends show their private ends, And the eagle is known from the owl. </poem> This motto, which was never engraved by Blake, is not found in any copy of the ""Songs of Innocence and of Experience"". There are 10 poems in the ""Notebook"" written during Blake's life in Felpham, a village in West Sussex. Here is the one of his most characteristic poems of that period: <poem> Mock on, Mock on Voltaire, Rousseau: Mock on, Mock on: 'tis all in vain! You throw the sand against the wind, And the wind blows it back"
"one may Grope out a needle in a load of hay; And though a white crow be exceedingly rare, A blind man may, by fortune, catch a hare. — ""A Kicksey Winsey"" (pt. VII)</poem> John Taylor (poet) John Taylor (24 August 1578 – 1653) was an English poet who dubbed himself ""The Water Poet"". John Taylor was born in Gloucester on 24 August 1578. After his waterman apprenticeship he served (1596) in Essex's fleet, and was present at Flores in 1597 and at a siege of Cadiz. He spent much of his life as a Thames waterman, a member of"
"89""v""b, a collection of Irish saint's lives now held by the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Donnchadh Ó Cobhthaigh Diarmait Ó Cobhthaigh was an Irish poet, fl. 1584. Ó Cobhthaigh was a member of a hereditary bardic family, based in what is now County Westmeath but was once the heartland of the original kingdom of Mide. The family were from the district known as Fir Thulach. He was the author of a penitential composition, ""Acht mar uisge d'éis a leata"" (""Just as water, after it has frozen""), which was a translation of the Latin poem ""Lympha coacta gelu"" (""Liquid, condensed by cold"")."
"Lotos Eaters"", ""Tears, Idle Tears"", ""In Memoriam""), possibly reflecting Tennyson's own lifelong struggle with debilitating depression. T. S. Eliot famously described Tennyson as ""the saddest of all English poets"", whose technical mastery of verse and language provided a ""surface"" to his poetry's ""depths, to the abyss of sorrow"". Other poets such as W. H. Auden maintained a more critical stance, stating that Tennyson was the ""stupidest"" of all the English poets, adding that: ""There was little about melancholia he didn't know; there was little else that he did."" Tennyson's early poetry, with its medievalism and powerful visual imagery, was a"
"The following three lines are particularly dense with allusion: <poem> His steeds to water at those springs </poem> These phrases are explained by William Warburton (sometime Bishop of Gloucester) in a succinct paraphrase in his 1747 edition of Alexander Pope's version of Shakespeare: represented by the mythical horses which pull Phoebus' fiery chariot, ""the morning sun dries the dew which lies in the cups of flowers."" The stanza or stave of this song is one of four fourteen-syllable verses, and a refrain. Alexander Pope tampered with the division of Shakespeare's lines as they stood in the First Folio. Sir Thomas"
"Siegfried Sassoon Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war. Sassoon became a focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war in his ""Soldier's Declaration"" of 1917, culminating in his admission to a military"
"deaths of entire species buried in the earth. 1816, the year in which the poem was written, was called ""the year without summer"", as strange weather and an inexplicable darkness caused record-cold temperatures across Europe, especially in Geneva. Byron claimed to have received his inspiration for the poem, saying he ""wrote it... at Geneva, when there was a celebrated dark day, on which the fowls went to roost at noon, and the candles were lighted as at midnight"". The darkness was (unknown to those of the time) caused by the volcanic ash spewing from the eruption of Mount Tambora in"
"critic Richard Wilbur has described it as ""America's first flawless poem"". The narrator in George du Maurier's ""Peter Ibbetson"" calls it ""the most beautiful poem in the world"". To a Waterfowl ""To a Waterfowl"" is a poem by American poet William Cullen Bryant, first published in 1818. The narrator questions where the waterfowl is going and questions his motives for flying. He warns the waterfowl that he could possibly find danger, traveling alone. But this waterfowl is not alone; it is being led by some Power. As the waterfowl disappears out of the narrator's sight, the narrator reflects on God's"
"</poem> Lines 8–10 are quoted in the Philip K. Dick novel ""Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said"". Flow, my tears ""Flow, my tears"" is a lute song (specifically, an ""ayre"") by the accomplished lutenist and composer John Dowland (1563–1626). Originally composed as an instrumental under the name ""Lachrimae pavane"" in 1596, it is Dowland's most famous ayre, and became his signature song, literally as well as metaphorically: he would occasionally sign his name ""Jo. Dolandi de Lachrimae"". Like others of Dowland's lute songs, the piece's musical form and style are based on a dance, in this case the pavan. It"
"Boots (poem) ""Boots"" is a poem by English author and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936). It was first published in 1903, in his collection ""The Five Nations"". ""Boots"" imagines the repetitive thoughts of a British Army infantryman marching by forced marches in South Africa during the Second Boer War (which had ended in 1902). It has been said that if the first four words in each line are read at the rate of two words to the second, that gives the time to which the British foot soldier was accustomed to march. The poem was set to music for low male"
"and if I weep, In his poem ""The Sleeper,"" Edgar Allan Poe describes a 'sleeping' ""universal valley"" that includes a Lethe-like body of water. Charles Baudelaire's poem ""Spleen"" ends with the lines ""II n'a su réchauffer ce cadavre hébétéOù coule au lieu de sang l'eau verte du Léthé"" (""He failed to warm this dazed cadaver in whose veinsFlows the green water of Lethe in place of blood.""). French Romantic poet Alphonse de Lamartine refers to the Lethe river in ""Le Vallon"" (The Vale) J'ai trop vu, trop senti, trop aimé dans ma vie; Je viens chercher vivant le calme du"
"Red Cotton Night-Cap Country Red Cotton Night-Cap Country, or Turf and Towers (1873) is a poem in blank verse by Robert Browning. It tells a story of sexual intrigue, religious obsession and violent death in contemporary Paris and Normandy, closely based on the true story of the death, supposedly by suicide, of the jewellery heir Antoine Mellerio. ""Red Cotton Night-Cap Country"" has never been one of Browning's more popular poems, originally because of the perceived sordidness of the story, and later on grounds thus summarised by the critic C. H. Herford: The poet followed on the heels of the journalist,"
"died in Orange, New Jersey. Ethel Lynn Beers Ethel Lynn Beers (born Ethelinda Eliot; January 13, 1827 – October 11, 1879) was an American poet best known for her patriotic and sentimental Civil War poem ""All Quiet Along the Potomac Tonight"". Ethelinda Eliot was born in Goshen, New York on January 13, 1827. She was a descendant of Puritan missionary John Eliot. When she began writing and publishing, she signed her name as ""Ethel Lynn"" because she thought her last name was too ""tame and commonplace"". At age 19, she married William H. Beers and appended her married name to"
"Wilfred Owen Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his mentor Siegfried Sassoon, and stood in stark contrast both to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Among his best-known works – most of which were published posthumously – are ""Dulce et Decorum est"", ""Insensibility"", ""Anthem"
"bed. His last words were to Hanna Maria, asking her for a glass of water. On Sunday, 16 August 1970, a plaque was unveiled by a group of Cork dignitaries to mark the grave of Johnny Tom near the wall outside South Kilmurry Church. He is buried in Aghabullogue graveyard. Johnny Tom Gleeson Johnny Tom Gleeson (1853-1924) was an Irish poet and songwriter. He wrote the ballad ""The Bould Thady Quill"" (c.1895), a spoof on a non-athlete, and two other noted poems: “The Battle Ship Sinn Féin” (c.1905), his only patriotic piece, and “The Wild Bar-A-Boo” (c.1910), spoofing the noted"